This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.
OLIVER STONEFootball is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
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writing = ass + chair
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People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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We have enormous challenges in front of us.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
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Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.
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The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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There was a certain faction in America that had always been pro-Nazi, including the Allen Dulles people. These were businessmen, Wall Street men.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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Each actor requires a different language.
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I make my films like you’re going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.
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